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Trump Tried to Send the National Guard Into Chicago. The Supreme Court Said No.

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The Supreme Court blocked President Trump on Tuesday from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago as part of his campaign to use the military to police the streets of Democratic-led cities. The Trump administration had argued that Chicago was in chaos—referring to protests against immigration enforcement—but the Supreme Court’s order reads, “At this preliminary stage, […]

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Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are About to See Their Paychecks Shrink

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The Department of Education said Monday that the Trump administration will begin to garnish earnings from student loan borrowers in January.  This is the first time borrowers’ paychecks will be at risk since pandemic-era policies paused payments in March 2020.  Starting the week of January 7, around 1,000 borrowers in default will get notices of […]

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Trump Administration Bans Abortion Care for Veterans

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In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling. This change stems from a Department of Justice legal opinion on December 18 that reinstated exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling that […]

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Mike Pence Poaches Heritage Foundation Staff After Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Blowup

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Former Vice President Mike Pence poached over a dozen senior officials from the Heritage Foundation to join his own conservative think tank in the latest sign that all is not well in right-wing politics. The Heritage Foundation is arguably the most prominent conservative think tank in America. Pence, meanwhile, started his competing think tank, Advancing […]

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CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans

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CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, a last-minute move that has since been condemned as political. The decision was announced just three hours before the story was expected to air on Sunday. […]

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Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

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The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.   The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]

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Trump Has Intercepted Two Oil Tankers Off Venezuela This Weekend

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The United States stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, just a day after the Coast Guard boarded another oil vessel, according to a report from Bloomberg.  The operation, which is not approved by Congress, is part of President Trump’s “blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, […]

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Congress Might Vote on Health Care Subsidies, But First: Vacation

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There may be hope for millions of Americans whose health insurance premiums are set to skyrocket in the new year, but not before Congress gets back from its two-week holiday vacation. Four moderate Republicans signed on to a Democratic petition to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years on Wednesday, effectively giving Democrats the […]

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Susie Wiles Disavows Her Own On-the-Record Admissions Revealing White House Chaos

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Hours after a Vanity Fair piece in which President Donald Trump’s chief of staff made a series of damaging, on-the-record remarks about the president, his policies, and allies, Susie Wiles appears to be attempting damage control. “A disingenuously framed hit piece,” she said on X, claiming that it had been “done to paint an overwhelmingly […]

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Donald Trump Hates That Rob Reiner’s Political Legacy Extends Far Beyond Hollywood

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Tributes poured in on Sunday following the news of the death of director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, film producer and photographer Michele Reiner. If you take a look, you’ll notice that many go beyond his film work and speak glowingly about his progressive activism—except for one missive from President Donald Trump. The […]

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Covid Shots May Get FDA’s Strongest Warning

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The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a “black-box” warning—a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has reported.  According to the Friday CNN report, the initiative to include the warning—part of a range of efforts by Trump administration health officials to limit […]

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TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE

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The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A Times report Friday revealed that information furnished by TSA provided the basis of ICE’s high-profile detention […]

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